GIN PHILLIPS
Sunday, March 2 at 2 p.m.

Up from Birmingham with a stellar debut novel is Gin Phillips with The Well and the Mine—from Portland's excellent Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts. "The Well and the Mine weaves the multiple voices of a Depression-era family into a tale that's both tragic and affirming. Gin Phillips evokes the coal-mining country of rural Alabama—its poverty, racial tensions, and labor loyalties—with startling vividness. Like a Gee's Bend quilter, Phillips stitches tradition, color, and necessity into every sentence of this superb first novel." - Peter Donahue. "When you close the book, you'll miss these characters. But The Well and the Mine doesn't give you characters who'll stay with you—it gives you a whole world." - Fannie Flagg.

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